Also, this is the ticket regarding fireEvent:
https://mootools.lighthouseapp.com/projects/2706/tickets/976-resolve-fireevent-issues-with-ie9
(I wrongly said we were staying with triggerEvent :) )
On Sep 17, 1:23 am, Christoph Pojer <christoph.po...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So the thing was that at the hackathon I discovered that IE9 doesn't
> pick up fireEvent from the Element.prototype. We have tried to find a
> fix but it took quite a while (the fact that my IE9 preview 4 crashed
> when I opened the dev console didn't help either). I have since posted
> the bug to the IE9 feedback tracker and Microsoft has since recognized
> it as bug.
>
> In 1.3 and 1.2.5 we are going the way of putting fireEvent on the
> HTMLElement prototype, which seems to work in IE9.
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> Before we were able to figure out this fix we decided to rename
> fireEvent to not collide with the native fireEvent method of IE any
> more. Given that in 2.0 we will likely move to element wrappers, this
> problem will go away. This is why, after the fix, we decided to revert
> the change again so we don't change the API just for the fun of it.
>
> I can assure you I was annoyed by the revert too because it took me a
> while to update all my scripts - but in the end, it is better to keep
> fireEvent.
>
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> On Sep 16, 10:49 pm, Rolf -nl <plentyofr...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > fireEvent is now back I see at github. Is there some discussion where
> > we can follow things like this? I already updated some beta code, and
> > it's simple to replace again, though I was wondering how I could be up-
> > to-date with updates like that (I now stumbled upon this by accident
> > visiting github for 2 mins)..?
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> > In the last comment here (by cpojer) I think there will be
> > triggerEvent in 1.3, but not after 1.3 ("we're not going to
> > overwrite...")...?https://mootools.lighthouseapp.com/projects/2706/tickets/705-no-way-t...
